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Sunday, January 25, 2009

And The “I Plucked The Numbers Out Of My Ass” Award Goes To…

The IFPI. This week they claimed 95% of music downloads are illegal. This figure is possible but unverifiable. The IFPI got the figure by estimating. What annoys me is that the “estimate” (used for confirmation bias:I.e we feel a lot of music is being pirated therefore we will estimate a big figure)... Sign in to see full entry.

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